The series will star Danielle, as well as Matt Davis as Alaric, Aria Shahghasemi as Landon, and three new actors – Quincy Fouse, Jenny Boyd and Kaylee Bryant.

The potential new show won’t have a “backdoor pilot”, but instead a “short video presentation, largely compiled from scenes in the final 13-episode season of The Originals, which has been designed to lead to the potential offshoot.”

The Hope spinoff will vy for one of the pilot spots for the CW’s 2018-19 schedule.

Matt Davis, who you know best from The Vampire Diaries, was also in Legally Blonde.

That’s right, Alaric WAS Warner Huntington III, and even better, had a major crush on his co-star Selma Blair.

“I absolutely loved and adored Selma,” Matt revealed in a new interview. “I developed a crush on her at the time but she was with someone else – I think she was dating the guy from Rushmore [actor Jason Schwartzman] [and] he was coming around and I was kind of like, ‘who is this guy?!’”

Matt adds that Selma was easily the “funniest person on set. I love a very dry, dark sense of humor, so she had me in stitches the whole time.”

And his crushies didn’t stop there — Matt also “fanboyed out” and embarrassed himself when he met Reese Witherspoon too.

“I felt starstruck by all this because it happened so quickly and I hadn’t adjusted,” he admits. “I definitely wasn’t cool. At the first table read, I just kept going on and on about how much I loved her work, fawning all over her.”

“I remember turning beet-red and later getting back in my car and just slapping my forehead, feeling like a fool,” he remembers.

BRB, going to re-watch Legally Blonde with all this newfound knowledge.